Facebook removes 'gay sex for rent' posts

Facebook has removed a group in which landlords were offering young men free accommodation in return for sex. A BuzzFeed News investigation found dozens of posts on Facebook, Craigslist and RoomBuddies offering men a place to live rent-free in return for sex. BuzzFeed News found posts on several sites including Facebook, created by men seeking "Houseboys" or "Live-in personal assistants". The news site also found posts from those desperate to find accommodation who had turned to Facebook as a last resort. Facebook told BuzzFeed News it had spent "a long time looking into this" and that posts offering free accommodation in return for sex "Violate Facebook's standards".